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Mike Tomlin’s quick press conference exit creates internet gold
Mike Tomlin’s abrupt departure from his postgame press conference Monday generated all kinds of speculation of his future with the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you didn’t already know, the Steelers lost the wild-card round game 31-17 to the Buffalo Bills. The coach’s quick exit opened the door for online creativity. The...
Salem’s Market, set to open in Hill District, will fill void in neighborhood
Abdullah Salem, owner of Salem’s (Sah-Lims) Market, is preparing to open a location in the Hill District in February. It will be his third. He says failure is not an option in this location — they owe that to the community. He is working day and night to make sure...
What they’re saying in Buffalo after Bills knock Steelers from playoffs
Fans were left to dig out their seats at snowy Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, but the Pittsburgh Steelers couldn’t dig out of an early point deficit in losing their fifth consecutive playoff game. The Buffalo Bills and the sportswriters who cover them had a lot of praise for two specific...
Overnight snow impacts Western Pa. schools, roadways
More than 200 schools and school districts — from Academy Charter School in Pittsburgh to the Yough School District in Westmoreland County — either closed or delayed the opening of school Tuesday morning, as the Pittsburgh area was hit with snow and frigid temperatures. Pittsburgh Public Schools canceled classes for...
Morning Roundup: Fire damages Dollar Tree in Homestead
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Tuesday, Jan. 16: Fire damages Dollar Tree in Homestead A fire was reported early Tuesday at a Dollar Tree store in Homestead. Firefighters, police and paramedics responded to the store, located near Heisel Street, at about 3 a.m., according...
Families explore themes of Martin Luther King Day at Greensburg art museum’s open house
Marie Churley of Tarentum challenged her grandson to learn something about the Rev. Martin Luther King on Monday, the national holiday that honors the slain civil rights leader. “He changed the world, and he helped people,” said 7-year-old Ryan Smith of Swissvale. The boy and his family arrived late in...
Work underway to move Social Security office to former CVS building in Harrison
About a year after it was first announced, the relocation by the Social Security Administration from New Kensington to Harrison is moving forward. Construction is underway inside the former CVS store in Heights Plaza, just off Freeport Road. “The move date will be confirmed as we get closer to construction...
Vivek Ramaswamy announces he’s suspending his presidential bid after a disappointing finish in Iowa
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Monday and endorsed former President Donald Trump after finishing a distant fourth in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses. Ramaswamy said he made the decision after determining there was no path forward for him in the race, “absent things...
Fan came from Illinois to the North Shore to root for the Steelers with family, Pittsburghers
Susan Young wore a T.J. Watt jersey with a big Steelers logo hanging from a thick gold chain as she watched Pittsburgh play without the star linebacker in Monday’s wild-card game against Buffalo. Young, of Effingham, Ill., is the Pittsburgh fan in her family, and her husband, who goes by...
Airing of Grievances: Predictable problems end Steelers’ season without a playoff win yet again
During his call of the Steelers’ playoff loss Monday, CBS play-by-play man Jim Nantz said he had been locked in his snowbound hotel for so long, it was starting to feel like “The Shining.” Well, however frightening Nantz’s stay was in Buffalo’s version of the Overlook Hotel, it couldn’t have...
Steelers go cold in Buffalo, lose 5th consecutive playoff game
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The snowstorm that paralyzed western New York and led to the postponement of an AFC wild-card game until Monday merely delayed the inevitable playoff letdown for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Fans shoveled the 3 feet of snow that was dumped on Highmark Stadium over the weekend, but...
Victim of fatal Beaver County fire identified
The Beaver County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who dies in a house fire Monday evening in Ohioville. The victim was Raymond Jankowski, 50, of Ohioville. The fire was reported around 5:13 p.m. in the 100 block of Ridgemont Drive, according to Beaver County 911 dispatchers. Ohioville Borough Volunteer...
MLK prayer breakfast honors Pitt School of Law vice dean Jerry Dickinson
The Allegheny County Bar Association Homer S. Brown division held its 25th annual MLK prayer breakfast on Monday. Jerry Dickinson, vice dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, was recognized with the Drum Major for Justice Award at Bethel A.M.E. Church in the Hill District. Many say Dickinson...
Fans for Steelers-Bills playoff game on apparent shovel-your-own-seats policyVideo
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Apparently, not enough people took up the $20-per-hour offer. The plan for removing multiple feet of snow from the 71,000-plus seats at Highmark Stadium in advance of Monday’s playoff game evidently was to accept those willing to shovel for as long as they pleased. But by...
Arnold man used stolen gun to fatally wound intruder, police say
A gun that was used to fatally wound a man Friday night in Arnold had been stolen from Tarentum, according to court paperwork. Malique Jamal Black, 25, told a Westmoreland County detective that he bought on the gun on the street. Police say it was the gun used to shoot...
Loved ones lament death of Upper St. Clair man killed by police
Yellow police tape fluttered last week like paper streamers from the trees along Lamar Road in Upper St. Clair, a grim reminder for Christopher Shepherd’s family and friends of his violent death at the hands of police. Shepherd, who battled mental illness for more than 20 years, was gunned down...
New law aims to make guardianship a last resort in Pa., but some experts say it doesn’t go far enough
This story first appeared in The Investigator, a weekly newsletter by Spotlight PA featuring the best investigative and accountability journalism from across Pennsylvania. HARRISBURG — With little fanfare, Gov. Josh Shapiro in December signed into law a bill aimed at fixing long-standing problems within Pennsylvania’s vexing system for safeguarding adults...
Trump wins Iowa caucuses in crucial victory at the outset of the Republican presidential campaign
DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses Monday, a crucial victory at the outset of the Republican primary that reinforces the former president’s bond with his party’s voters even as he faces extraordinary legal challenges that could complicate his bid to return to the White House. The...
Tarentum police seek lottery ticket thieves
Thieves made off with hundreds of scratch-off lottery tickets during an overnight burglary at Asay’s News Stand in Tarentum, but they didn’t get any winners. Owner Kevin Bertocki said two men smashed the glass door at the East Sixth Avenue store about 3:30 a.m. and were inside for less than...
MLK Shabbat dinner at East End Cooperative Ministry emphasizes solidarity
A group whose goal is to bring together people of different backgrounds held a dinner Friday night in East Liberty that it called the MLK Shabbat Dinner. The focus for the night at the East End Cooperative Ministry was creating solidarity. The dinner was hosted and organized by Repair the...
TV Talk: KDKA-TV, WPXI ground shared chopper; Mister Rogers moment ranks Top 10
After decades of competition, the Pittsburgh TV station chopper wars are over with just one helicopter left flying. The beginning of the end started two years ago when KDKA-TV and WPXI-TV decided to share one helicopter. Prior to that, each station contracted for its own chopper. Now, KDKA and WPXI...
What you need to know for Steelers vs. Bills AFC wild-card gameVideo
It’s cold. It’s snowing. It’s windy. Get ready for playoff football on a Monday afternoon in Buffalo. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Buffalo Bills will kick off their AFC wild-card game at 4:30 p.m. Workers armed with shovels, plows and dump trucks continued to clear snow from inside and outside Highmark...
Millions will be spent on logs, rocks to stabilize Allegheny, Westmoreland stream banks
A 1,800-foot stretch of the Little Sewickley Creek in the Herminie and Darragh areas will soon be stabilized with rocks and logs. The project will help to deflect the water’s current and improve the habitat for aquatic life of the trout-stocked stream, said Greg Schaetzle, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s watershed...
Pitt Ohio to donate semi-trailer to Forbes Road school in Monroeville
Students in Forbes Road Career & Technology School’s diesel technology program get plenty of experience working on the massive trucks that haul goods back and forth across the country. The difficulty is those trucks are often from the mid-1990s. “There’s none of the modern controls or emissions technology, and there’s...
Tractor-trailer overturns on Route 119 near New Stanton turnpike interchange
Route 119/Interstate 70 in New Stanton reopened Monday morning after an overturned tractor-trailer was cleaned up. The highway was shut down around 7 a.m. just south of Youngwood. A photo from the scene showed the road blocked by the overturned rig at the on-ramp to Route 119 south, not far...
